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HD TV Special on Alternative Vehicles Needs Cars!!

Rhythm — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 00:05:28 GMT

Great news to everyone in the green movement. Television is finally warming up to the idea of green and we'll be seeing a slew of Sustainability oriented shows in the near future.
I work at a television production company in the S.F. Bay Area, and there has been a serious buzz from all the major networks about acquiring Green Content. They want it.

We have been appoached by a network to do a 6 hour show. The premise is a "race" of several green vehicles across the country.
Here's where you come in: We need high quality, well developed alternative fuel vehicles.
This is a major opportunity to show the world where the alternative fuel movement is, and really bring it into people's homes for the first time.
If you have, or know of someone who has a well refined and solidly working alternative fuel vehicle, please get in contact with me as we would like love to have you and your vehicle on the show.

Knowing how prolific Biodeisel is I'm sure we'll be getting lots of great entries for that technology. What we really will need are some exceptional examples of other technologies. EVs, Wood Fuel, Water Fuel.... Other technologies that are being developed and in a reasonably well developed state. One of the show concepts will be do display several different green car technologies.

In your e-mails please include:
Name of vehicle owner / Builders.
Technology it uses.
Pictures if possible.
Level of reliability.
Contact info for all parties involved with the vehicle.

Thanks everyone. Things are finally starting to turn! Now we all just need to keep on pushing harder than ever and we'll fully shift the tides!

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2003 - San Francisco, Other CA Cities to Ban Segway from city sidewalks

Tue, 25 Jul 2006 00:46:45 GMT

The board of supervisors in San Francisco, CA, recently (2003) decided to ban the use of Segway's two-wheel, battery-powered Human Transporters (HTs) on the city's sidewalks beginning January 20 due to concerns that the electric scooters will pose a threat to the safety of senior citizens and disabled persons.

Additionally, other cities in the San Francisco Bay area have begun considering measures to block the HTs from traveling on sidewalks. For instance, Santa Cruz may add the HTs to an ordinance banning electric bicycles on sidewalks in business districts.

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clean energy

Thu, 06 Jul 2006 19:15:16 GMT

any energy professionals (engineers, investors, managers, etc) in here please drop me a line..
thx.

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Pollution threatens astronomy

davidh — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 05:06:46 GMT

Telescopes 'worthless' by 2050
By Paul Rincon
BBC News science reporter

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4755996.stm

Ground-based astronomy could be impossible in 40 years because of pollution from aircraft exhaust trails and climate change, an expert says.

Aircraft condensation trails - known as contrails - can dissipate, becoming indistinguishable from other clouds.

If trends in cheap air travel continue, says Professor Gerry Gilmore, the era of ground astronomy may come to an end much earlier than most had predicted.

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hi

Wed, 01 Mar 2006 22:33:04 GMT

http://www.switch2hydrogen.com/

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Oxyride/Panasonic

davidh — Thu, 23 Dec 2004 21:41:49 GMT

AP wire story: 23 Dec 04:

An electric car powered only by two pieces of the Oxyride dry battery AA developed by Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. during its test run in Tokyo Friday, Dec. 10, 2004. The new battery that delivers 1.5 times the power of a regular alkaline battery will go on sale in the United States and Europe in April 2005, the Japanese electronics maker said. The Oxyride battery, which went on sale in Japan in April this year, also lasts longer than regular batteries, allowing users to take about twice as many pictures on a digital camera, according to the Osaka-based manufacturer of the Panasonic brand. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)

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